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Expediency meaning

  1. The quality of being fit or suitable to effect some desired end or the purpose intended; suitability for particular circumstance or situation.
  2. Pursuit of the course of action that brings the desired effect even if it is unjust or unprincipled.
  3. Haste; dispatch.

Synonyms of Expediency

expedience advantage vantage inexpediency inexpedience

Using Expediency

  • The main meaning on this page is: The quality of being fit or suitable to effect some desired end or the purpose intended; suitability for particular circumstance or situation. | Pursuit of the course of action that brings the desired effect even if it is unjust or unprincipled. | Haste; dispatch.
  • Useful related words include: expedience, advantage, vantage, inexpediency.
  • In the example corpus, expediency often appears in combinations such as: political expediency, the expediency, of expediency.

Context around Expediency

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 25 words
  • Position in the sentence: 5 start, 5 middle, 10 end
  • Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations

Corpus analysis for Expediency

  • In this selection, "expediency" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 25 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, political, convenience, democratic, may, council and ends stand out and add context to how "expediency" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include for political expediency and accuracy for expediency because we. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "expediency" sits close to words such as abstractions, accosted and adair, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with expediency

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

But political expediency may also be part of the equation, analysts say. (12 words)

Screen capture from video of Mohsen Rezai, head of Iran’s Expediency Council. (13 words)

Well, in the Greek tale, Expediency ends up getting drunk and hooking up with Poverty. (15 words)

Anyone who has followed Harris closely knows this isn’t the first time she has sacrificed her principles for political expediency, even if it is at the expense of the Black people she claims to represent. (36 words)

However, Adv Macheli firmly refuted these claims, stating that the exam schedule remained in line with the original calendar and that the university was not sacrificing student well-being for the sake of expediency. (34 words)

Teams of national security officials, secretaries and military aides who share responsibility for keeping top-level executives informed — and the executives themselves — may bend the rules for convenience, expediency or sometimes simple carelessness. (33 words)

What effect will the sacrifice of this fan, on the altar of expediency, have on the value of the all-important next TV deal? (24 words)

Example sentences (20)

A spokesman said: "The council is currently considering the expediency of formal action, which could include measures preventing further development at the site until the matter is resolved.

But political expediency may also be part of the equation, analysts say.

He said political expediency has preceded judicial responsibility and that a mechanical application of technicalities has superseded the pursuit of justice and fairness.

It’s political expediency to cling to a philosophy that you don’t believe in, besides the proclamation was made by a shameless philanderer.

Political expediency or lack of consensus over principles were largely responsible for them to undertake such exercises.

Teams of national security officials, secretaries and military aides who share responsibility for keeping top-level executives informed — and the executives themselves — may bend the rules for convenience, expediency or sometimes simple carelessness.

To stifle that input, particularly in this case, should be called out for what it is: a heavy-handed tactic done for political expediency.

Whether for reasons of political expediency or from sympathy for an ultra-Orthodox community decimated by the Holocaust, Ben-Gurion backed down.

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Additionally, auxiliary lanes along with a bike trail is underway and should be built with expediency.

For Trump and his compatriots, race is the wild card that can be held in their hand, to be denied for political expediency or exploited when it suits them.

However, Adv Macheli firmly refuted these claims, stating that the exam schedule remained in line with the original calendar and that the university was not sacrificing student well-being for the sake of expediency.

Anyone who has followed Harris closely knows this isn’t the first time she has sacrificed her principles for political expediency, even if it is at the expense of the Black people she claims to represent.

At the heart of his being, Biden is an archetypical politician who has never believed so strongly in any belief or conviction that he could not jettison it for sheer political expediency.

However, efforts by then finance minister Patrick Chinamasa to institute measures to cut down on runaway expenditure hit a brick wall as the proposals were spurned for political expediency.

Like the biblical lepers, he refused to bear the ignoble names that were given to him as a result of the expediency of the electioneering campaign at the time.

Screen capture from video of Mohsen Rezai, head of Iran’s Expediency Council.

This may at times make us a little slower to respond, but we're unwilling to sacrifice accuracy for expediency because we recognize how important truth is to connecting with people.

We flatter ourselves if we think the New Deal represented a third choice, for it borrowed from the other two and added only the ingredient of democratic expediency.

Well, in the Greek tale, Expediency ends up getting drunk and hooking up with Poverty.

What effect will the sacrifice of this fan, on the altar of expediency, have on the value of the all-important next TV deal?

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Common combinations with expediency

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "expediency" in a sentence?
An example: "A spokesman said: "The council is currently considering the expediency of formal action, which could include measures preventing further development at the site until the matter is resolved." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "expediency" from authentic English texts.
What does "expediency" mean?
Expediency means: The quality of being fit or suitable to effect some desired end or the purpose intended; suitability for particular circumstance or situation.
What are synonyms of "expediency"?
Common synonyms of "expediency" include: expedience, advantage, vantage, inexpediency, inexpedience.
How many example sentences with "expediency" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains at least 10+ example sentences with "expediency", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.